Gone to Find Guinn: A Lost Farmstead at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield

Summary

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeologists with the Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC), local volunteers, and Wilson's Creek National Battlefield (WICR) staff conducted a systematic metal detector and magnetometry survey of the proposed location of the Guinn Farmstead. The site of an ambush during the Union Army's retreat in the August heat of 1861, Guinn Farm is important for a broader understanding of the first major battle of the US Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi. Results from the survey provided high-resolution data regarding subsurface artifact distributions that were ground-truthed during a metal detector inventory. The resulting data are presented in this poster and elaborate on the brief historical accounts from survivors. The project places Guinn Farm in the broader context of the brief and violent history of the "Bull Run of the West."

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38227.0